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Ana Howie is an Assistant Professor specializing in Renaissance and Early Modern Art, with a focus on visual material cultures in early modern Europe, particularly in Italy and the Low Countries. Her research interests encompass cultures of dressing, European imperialism, colonialism, cosmopolitanism, artisanal practices, object materialities, global networks of artistic exchange, and early modern race-making. Howie's current research investigates the relationships between elite women and global material culture, emphasizing portraiture in seventeenth-century Genoa and the oeuvres of Flemish painters such as Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck. She has contributed to the field with publications like "Materializing Global: Textiles, Color, Race in the Genoese Portrait of Anthony van Dyck" in Renaissance Quarterly, and is set to publish forthcoming works exploring sumptuary laws, gender, and public dressing in Early Modern Genoa. With a PhD in Early Modern History from the University of Cambridge awarded in 2023 and a Master's degree from the Courtauld Institute of Art, she is actively shaping the study of visual culture and artistic practices in her field.
Department of Architecture